Nuckolls Building
ca. 1945
Built by H.A. Nuckolls, tenants have been
Starnes Paint & Wallpaper, Nu Better Foods,
Farnsworth Furniture and Sherwood's
Restaurant. On this corner in 1842 the town's
first hotel, the Ripley House, opened as a
stagecoach stop. Over the years the hotel
expanded to a three-story, pebbledash
building with 150 rooms and was renamed
the Globe, the Imperial, the Gates and
finally, the St. Johns Hotel. In October 1915,
the hotel burned.
Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and 2nd Avenue West, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
